Names

  • Nebuchadnezzar II 070

Numbers

  • Q005541
  • Nebuchadnezzar II 070
  • GMTR 4 B13; Walker, CBI 94

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Details

  • brick
  • Neo-Babylonian
  • Babylon
  • Royal Inscription
  • Nebuchadnezzar II

Bibliography

GMTR 4 B13; Walker, CBI 94

Nebuchadnezzar II 070

Obverse
11

dAG-NÍG.DU-ú-ṣur LUGAL KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI za-ni-in é-sag-íl ù é-zi-da DUMU dAG-IBILA-ú-ṣur LUGAL KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI

(1) Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon:

22

su-qa-a-ti ba-bi-lam.KI ma-al-da-ḫa dAG ù dAMAR.UTU EN.MEŠ-e-a šá dAG-IBILA-ú-ṣur LUGAL ⸢KÁ⸣.DINGIR.RA.KI AD ba-nu-ú-a1

(2) (With regard to) the streets of Babylon, the processional street(s) of the gods Nabû and Marduk, my lords, whose accessway(s) Nabopolassar, the king of Babylon, my father who engendered me, had improved using bitumen and baked brick, (but) it was me, the wise (and) pious one who reveres th[eir] lordy majesties, (who) filled in a strong infill with ritually pure earth over the bitumen and baked brick (and who) reinforced their interiors using bitumen and baked brick like a high road.

33

i-na ESIR.UD.DU.A ù SIG₄.AL.ÙR.RA ú-da-am-mi-iq ta-al-la-ak-ti ia-ti en-qu mut-né-en-nu-ú pa-liḫ EN-ti-⸢šú⸣-[nu]

44

e-li ESIR.UD.DU.A ù SIG₄.AL.ÙR.RA tam-la-a dan-nu i-na SAḪAR.ḪI.A el-lu-ti ú-ma-al-li i-na ESIR.UD.DU.A ù

55

SIG₄.AL.ÙR.RA ki-ma me-ti-qu šá-qí-i ú-dan-nin qé-reb-ši-in dAG ù dAMAR.UTU i-na su-qa-a-ti ši-na-a-ti ḫa-di-iš

(5b) O Nabû and Marduk, when you (travel) these streets with pleasure during your processional walk(s), may my good deeds be set upon your lips. (During) a life of distant days, good health, (and) happiness [i]n your presence, may I grow old walking in them for a long time, forever.

66

i-na ša-da-ḫi-ku-un dam-qá-tu-ú-a li-iš-šak-nu šap-ti-ku-un ba-la-aṭ u₄-um ru-qu-ti DÙG.GA ši-ri ⸢ḫu-ud lìb-bi⸣

77

[i]-na ma-ḫa-ri-ku-nu qer-reb-bu-uš-šú-nu a-ta-lu-ku lu-la-ab-bi-ir a-na da-ra-a-ti

1This is one of two known inscriptions that records that Nabopolassar worked on Babylon’s processional streets. The other text is Nbk. 2 (East India House; v 12–20). Evidence for Nabopolassar working on the (southern part) of the south-north stretch might come from the uninscribed/unstamped 31×31 cm bricks that were found in situ. See Pedersén, Babylon pp. 204–205, 211, and 217. For further information, see p. 11 of the present volume.

Created by Frauke Weiershäuser and Jamie Novotny, 2015-25, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich, the Henkel Foundation, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East), and and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. At the present time, there is no stable, citable URL for this text and, therefore, the RINBE team kindly requests that this edition be cited as "RIBo Nebuchadnezzar II B13".

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